CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CEX. QUE/RCUS. 1769 
passion for relics; “ and a huge bulk of timber, consisting of many loads, was 
taken away in handfuls. Several saplings were raised, in different parts of 
the country, from its acorns, one of which grew near St. James’s Palace, 
where Marlborough House now stands ; and there was another in the Botanic 
Garden, Chelsea. The former has been long since felled ; and of the latter 
even the recollection seems now almost lost.” (Mart. Mill.) 
The Swilcar Lawn Oak (jig. 1612.), in Needwood 
Forest, measures 34ft.in circumference near the ground, “¢& 
though it is supposed to be 1000 years old, and is known “346°% 
by historical documents to have been a large tree more 
than 600 years: it is still in a growing state. Strutt 
states that, about 1830, it measured, at 6 ft. from the 
ground, 21 ft. 44 in. in circumference ; and that 54 years 
before, when measured at the same height from the 
ground, it girted only 19ft. This oak is celebrated in 
Mundy’s poem of Needwood Forest, and by Dr. Darwin. 
In Bagot’s Park, near Blithefield, about four miles from Lichfield, there 
are several very remarkable trees. Bagot’s Park is the seat of Lord Bagot, 
who may be regarded as one of the greatest planters of oaks “ in the kingdom ; 
having planted two millions of acorns on his estates in Staffordshire and Wales.” 
(Strutt.) The Squitch Oak (jig. 1613.) has a 
clear trunk 33 ft. high, which contains 660 
cubic ft.; one limb, 44 ft. long; and 14 other 
limbs containing altogether 352 cubic feet; “3 
making a total of 1012 cubic feet of timber. 255 
The total height is 61 ft.; the circumference, near * * =“ 
the ground, is 43 ft. ; and at 5 ft., is 21 ft. 9in. z 
The Rake’s Wood Oak is a very old tree, and 
has lost many of its branches, and several feet 
of its height. It is now about 55 ft. high, and 
pretty nearly 30ft. in circumference at 5 ft. from 
the ground. The Long Coppice Oak is rather 
smaller than the last: it is very old and un- 
sound, and has lost many heavy branches, and many feet of its height. Bett’s 
Pool Oak is a bull oak; that is, it is hollow, and open on one side. The 
hollow. is 9 ft. in diameter; but the trunk is only about 8ft. high. The 
Lodge Yard Oak is an old hollow tree, 
capable of holding a dozen people, 
33 ft. Gin. in circumference at 3 ft. 
from the ground. The Beggar’s Oak 
( fig. 1614.) is also in Bagot’s Park, 
and has a trunk 27 ft. 3in.in circum- 4 : 
ference at 5 ft. from the ground: the os ye: 
height is about 60 ft. “The roots rise *, 
above the ground in a very extra- 
ordinary manner, so as to furnish a 
natural seat for the beggars chancing 
to pass along the pathway near it; 
and the circumference taken around aes 
these is 68 ft. The branches extend about 50 ft. from the trunk in every 
direction. This tree contains 877 cubic feet of timber; which, including the 
bark, would have produced, according to the price offered for it in 1812, 
202/. 14s. 9d.” (Lauder’s Gilpin, i. p. 254.) We have been favoured with the 
dimensions of the above trees by Messrs. Thomas and George Turner, 
through the kindness of Lord Bagot. In Beaudesert Park there is a very 
ie oak, the trunk of which is now a mere shell, sufficiently roomy to allow 
eight people to stand withinit. The late Lady Uxbridge often sat within this 
tree; and there is a circular hole in the bark, through which she used to 
place a telescope, in order to amuse herself bv looking at objects in the sur- 
